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Two elementary question on automaton and language

1.What is the definition for a semigroup(or monoid) recognizing a set of words(or language)?2.Are recognizable,rational and regular equivalent to each other with respect to a language? PS:The reason ...
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Eilenberg's rational hierarchy of nonrational automata & languages

In the preface to his very influential books Automata, Languages and Machines (Volumes A, B), Samuel Eilenberg tantalizingly promised a Volume C dealing with "a hierarchy (called the rational ...